For years, the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin has served as a creative refuge for numerous artists, enabling their careers to soar. Founded by artists, it provides city dwellers and tourists with a contextual way to explore how art coexists with nature, information and beyond.

Sisters Gabriela and Tere Artigas founded their their jewelery line in 2003 but it's only recently that they settled on a space on Melrose Avenue, opening their showroom to the public for the first time.Their stunning pieces are a study in the beauty of contrast and tension, at once simple and compl

1. How did you get your start in design?I like to say it goes way back to being an infant in my mother's Russian Hill antique store. As a child of an antique shop owner and a real estate developer, I have long been enamored with art and design.

It goes without saying that Thomas Keller, chef at the iconic French Laundry, knows kitchens. After all, he holds multiple three-star Michelin ratings, and he’s the only United States chef with the honor.

ShowroomConverso ModernRare furniture and decorative arts dealer Lawrence Converso has been showcasing his finds since 1993, originally in Chicago and then in Manhattan. Now, he’s finally made the move West with a 2,200-square-foot showroom on Beverly Boulevard in the former Lawson-Fenning space.